Wednesday, September 12, 2007

His words are alive in his works and one can read and listen to his voice

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A Rishi’s Integral Vision of Society by RY Deshpande on Mon 10 Sep 2007 06:30 AM PDT Permanent Link Science, Culture and Integral Yoga Au...

Include the phenomenologico-existential experience of music in our discussion of musical aesthetics

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What Makes Music Beautiful ? By Cynthia R. Nielsen September 10, 2007 Comparing and contrasting two leading twentieth century composers, Pie...
Monday, September 10, 2007

Tagore felt mortified by many of the nationalist leaders behaving like terrorists

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TAGORE NOVEL FROM 1915: THE HOME AND THE WORLD September 10, 2007 at 5:31 am In Globalization , Literary , Third World , India , Philosoph...

In art alone you are completely free because there you impose laws upon yourself

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The Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library THE ASSAULT ON THE FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT Fichte and Romantic Self-Assertion If every man followed his ow...
Friday, September 07, 2007

These masters of blah have migrated to the Republic of Blog

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WAYS OF AN ANTIQUE LAND - Anglophone Indians and their odd habits Mukul Kesavan mukulkesavan@hotmail.com The Telegraph Front Page > O...
Wednesday, September 05, 2007

I see the historical problem of growth through the lens of culture more than through the economic history

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Marginal Revolution Small steps toward a much better world. A Farewell to Alms, through p.272 by Tyler Cowen Core Europe, starting in late...
Monday, September 03, 2007

The Titans birthed the Mount Olympus deities

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HOME :: News-and-Society / Religion The Forgotten Greek Gods By Richard Monk Mention Greek gods and people immediately think of Zeus and t...

Bengal Theatre was inaugurated on 16th August, 1873

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Theatre Halls In Calcutta BENGAL THEATRE (1873) This was literally the first permanent stage in the history of professional Bengali Theatre...

The “national consensus” among the SMS-sending crowd

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People's Democracy (Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Vol. XXXI No. 35 September 02, 2007 “TWO NATIONS” Prabhat ...

A few of the liberals sought to strike a balance. With all our writers, however, Hindu or Brahmo, the democratic content remained weak

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People's Democracy (Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Vol. XXXI No. 35 September 02, 2007 Bengali Literature Before...
Friday, August 31, 2007

The other four Pandavas represent the four purusharthas

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The Symbolism in the Mahabharata: At a symbolic level we can say that the Pandavas represent the daivi sampat, and the Kauvaras represent th...
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Vidyapati had propagated ideas of dharma in secular terms, emphasised on the irrelevance of caste, varna and ‘kula’

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Dhanakar said... Vidyapati;s time was of Muslim onslaught and it was only he who had described in his writings that Muslims force Hindus to...
Thursday, August 30, 2007

I suppose if I had to use a label, I'd tell you that I'm a Judaic-Vedic-Christian!

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Persichetti is one of the major figures in American music of the 20th century, both as a teacher and a composer. Notably, his Hymns and Resp...

A whole tradition in Rosenszweig and others that places emphasis on speaking and listening (on call and response) rather than seeing

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Literature and Seeing (When Deleuze reads literature, it is always to emphasise what is made visible by this 'one sees', even as it ...

Let love motivate every action

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An und für sich “This is more a comment than a question…” August 29th, 2007 William Gaddis & Redemption Brad Johnson William Gaddis ...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

We refuse to argue or agree to philosophic positions because we are afraid of where the argument leads

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Dialogue Is Never Enough Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. October 25, 2005 The term "dialogue" is, of course, of classical origin. Li...
Friday, August 24, 2007

The true hero, the true leader, is one who is at home in his body, his gut attuned to aspects of the situation that language cannot capture

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An und für sich “This is more a comment than a question…” The American Language by Adam August 23rd, 2007 The characteristically American ...